So who used to be anti-gun?

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I've never been 'anti', but my female friend kept making snide remarks when I started carrying, complete with the eye rolling thing.

That all stopped after reading various news articles on home invasions, massive drug distribution shutdowns, MS-13 operations, WalMart parking lot holdups and bank robberies...all in a town of 25k people.

She doesn't want to carry herself due to various reasons but relies on me for 'protection' whenever we go out.
 
I grew up around guns but in my mid 20's I became about as anti gun as one could be. I made the Brady Bunch look like gun nuts.
Then in my mid 40's I began to change from a radical liberal to more of a libertarian. As our society changed and the BG started using guns more often I decided to buy a handgun for home protection. Then I got my CCP and bought a couple more handguns.
Now I'm 57 years old. A few months ago I had to get a second gun safe.
I have lost a few old liberal friends over this but I've also enlightened a few who now own guns.
Man --if I hadn't been so darn anti gun for all those years I could be up to 3 or 4 safes by now. Oh well--I still have time
 
I can't say I was ever "anti", but guns weren't anything I really concerned myself with. My father was a retired police officer from Dallas and taught me how to shoot a BB rifle. I went up to a .22 soon after. And if my grades were really good he'd take me out on the back porch to knock down soda cans with his .38 snubby. Guns were just a thing that I wasn't supposed to touch unless he was around. He passed away while I was in highschool and I was put in the "man of the house" position. On one side of our house was a federal prison with frequent escapes and on the other was a new subdivision populated with less than savory characters. The awakening happened when our barn was raided of tools. I kept the 30-30 Marlin loaded next to my bed until I was off to college. Texas *finally* got concealed carry legislation passed somewhere in those years. I applied for and got my permit when I moved off campus and could keep a handgun. Been packing ever since. :p
 
I used to be pretty uncaring about guns one way or another. I grew up in a semi rural area of MD, and my parents didn't hunt etc. I didn't really have exposure to real firearms. Once in a while when guns were brought up I would think about how it is ok for people to have them for hunting purposes, but why would anyone need "assault weapons"?

Shooting once or twice in Boy Scouts was as much exposure as I got as a kid. I had a BB gun, got a couple airsoft guns, and then in 2006 I had a relevation... .22's are cheap and fun! That snowballed and I ended up on THR and other sites. I never knew the extent of my ignorance!! My political views on many things have changed from pretty "liberal" to pretty "libertarian". I still have some "liberal" views, but for the most part I am totally sickened with the culture I was part of for so long.

I am growing on needing a safe, teaching people how to shoot, thinking about reloading, and I am even sending emails and letters to my representatives in MD. Huge change from the apathetic liberal I was before. :D
 
In 1996, when I was a small boy, a madman shot up a bunch of kids at a school in my country. You may have heard of this event. It was the Dunblane massacre.

The anti gun groups got together, and formed the "snowdrop petition". A petition to ask for the removal and destruction of all handguns from public hands.

In a particularly low and tactless move, the petition was brought to my school. I signed the petition, because I simply did not know any better at the time. I must have been 10 or 11 years old.

I became pro RKBA at 14.
 
blair, you can't be held acountable for that. my mom took me to some hippy dippy protests when i was a kid. i have never considered myself a supporter or former supporter of those things, because the fact of the matter was I DIDN'T HAVE AN OPINION. i was just a kid.
nither did you.
 
Growing up on a farm in western Nebraska, I shared the opinion of most people out there: that a pistol was an evil thing, and had no use in the hands of private citizens. Today, you'd probably label most people like that "Fudds". They all , or most all of them believed that no properly run house should be without a .22 rifle and a shotgun. Deer hunters kept deer rifles, and some carried their deer rifles year-round, in case hey saw a coyote...... but Pistols, particularly centerfire pistols, were viewed as devilish things that criminals like bank robbers carried. I heard the phrase "A bottle is in the Devil's right hand, and a pistol is in his left...." a time or two......

Now I carry one daily, and have a drink ocasionally.
 
My love of guns was my rebellion against my anti-mother. Thankfuly my neighbor taught me all I know about shooting, who knows what I would have been.
 
When I was in fifth or sixth grade, a friend nearly blew my head off by accident while showing me how cool his Dad's .32 automatic was. 25 years later, I decided to get over my fear of handguns by taking a CCW class (after going out shooting a few times with the same friend, who now keeps his guns locked up and knows gun safety, unlike his SFB father). In between times, I have never really been "anti-gun," per se, though maybe a little phobic.

I'll be posting on the general autos forum looking for a good 9mm for the range and for possible CC, though I'm also definitely in the market for a mousegun.
 
I've never been anti-gun. I was in my freshman year of high school when Columbine happened, and it actually made me more pro-gun than anti-gun, just due to all the backlash that the event created. I've lived in a very, very liberal community in a very liberal city my entire life, and as a result my high school swung heavily anti-gun, especially at the time, but what can I say. The indoctrination so many of us worry about doesn't always work, because some people see a dogpile like that and head the other direction.

Even at that, I didn't have my first gun until I was in college. Never thought there was anything wrong with them; I even ran across a-human-right.com as a junior in high school, and more or less agreed with it.
 
If I wasn't "anti," I was at least half-convinced by the TV news that "guns are bad, m'kay?". The first real data that came along (thanks, Mr. Lott) raised an eyebrow and made me wonder, "Hey, Have I been lied to?"
 
Back in early elementary school, due to the general prejudice against guns, I wasn't very interested in gun ownership. I was more of a student of edged weapon combat.

Never was an anti though, just wasn't exposed to too much 2nd Amendment issues. I became involved in the shooting sports at around 10 when I began collecting and shooting Civil War guns.

Now, I am to the point that even a Southern Republican might call me a right wing fanatic:D

I always strongly believe in the right to bear arms. And under absolutely no circumstances will I EVER change my views.
 
I wasnt truely antigun, but more a "why do you need that?"-mindset when I was in my early teens. Realizing in my later teens that the world wasnt such a nice place made me change my mind.

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I've always been a gun nut. Had a smart carry under my diaper. However, I did vote Democrat once, but that was in the early 50's when everybody in the "solid" South was a Democrat.
 
When I was 18, I was okay with everything except machine guns and explosives. I'm cool with machine guns now, but from a logical perspective, I don't think explosives will be coming around any time soon.
 
I was raised in New England, near Boston -- not much of a gun culture there.

I don't think I've ever been very anti-gun -- but perhaps never having been around them, needlessly fearful of them.

This is something that, finally, in my 38th year, I have decided to rectify by going to a nearby gun range, practicing with a few different weapons til I find one i like (I am leaning toward a S&W 642 or 640), and obtain my CCW permit.

This past Monday was my first range visit -- and my first time firing a gun. The instructor who assisted me had me try both a S&W 642 and a Glock 19. I definitely preferred the revolver, though I was more accurate with the Glock.

My ex-wife and her family, though, are exceptionally phobic about guns.
 
Wow..this thread is very interesting. I didn't know we had so many converts on THR. I grew up in Florida and love guns from an early age. When I turned 21, thankfully FL had just passed concealed weapon legislation and I got my permit, right after my Dad got his. Keep those stories coming!
 
My mother... until she got hit in the head and her purse snatched.

Too bad she lived in Chicago.

A friend's mother was similarly anti-gun... until late December 1999. Then in anticipation of the zombie hordes and the end of civilization, she asked her son to loan her a gun. He had a one word answer, "no".
 
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I was never 'anti-gun' but I've never been 'pro-gun' either.As a child my grandfather took me hunting and I learned respect for what a gun could do. He gave each of his grandchildren a long gun. Didn't see much of a need for a handgun until recently. Nothing in particular that made me get a gun other then getting older and less able to defend myself.

I've never been a supporter of the 'gun control' or the NRA. To me both sides are about people who seek power by controlling others and looking at my wallet to hard. They spend to much time telling me what I can and can't do and trying to change laws to get me to conform to their ideals.
 
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